Three people were injured as protests over a planned new carbon tax led to clashes with police in Brittany at the weekend.

Amid growing public anger over a long succession of tax increases under President Hollande, 1,000 protesters blocked roads with burning tyres, bales of hay and heaps of cauliflowers on Saturday. They donned red caps as their forefathers had done during the tax rebellion of 1675, when 6,000 Bretons rose up against Louis XIV in a movement that spread across the country.

“The carbon tax marks a new revolt of the Red Caps,” Thierry Merret, head of the Federation